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Strange Tales , #97

Published: June 1962

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When a Planet Dies!
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When a Planet Dies!
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Humans are forced underground by the Sun’s death. An approaching planet alarms many, but humans vote against destroying it: saving Earth as the new planet, really a sun, thaws the dying world.

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Job number revealed on original art, Info per Nick Caputo: http://www.romitaman.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=21398&artistid=921 The third, fourth and sixth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).

Mystery Pupil
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A dull teacher earns accolades by accidentally helping capture a Martian criminal.

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Text story with illustration.

The Madness!
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A man is transported by a mist to the 16th century, where he is locked up as a madman. He escapes and is transported with the asylum keeper back to the present, where the keeper is taken for mad!

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The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series).

Goodbye to Linda Brown
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A girl in a wheelchair living with her aunt and uncle begins sleepwalking. In her sleep, she wheels herself underwater. The couple are sad...but they knew their mermaid ward would one day go home.

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The third page includes an advertisement for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series), the last page includes an advertisement for Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series), also by Lee and Ditko. This story is a retelling of "The Sea Waits for Me!", drawn by Dick Ayers, from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #43 (March 1956). Ditko evidentially used Aunt May and Uncle Ben here, as reference for Spider-Man's folks when they appeared two months later. They are nearly identical, only slightly younger.

Behind the Dreadful Door!
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A painter breaks into a room which he thinks is the source of a famous artist's inspiration. It contains supernatural beings that model for the artist, who take the intruder as their own model.

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The second and fourth pages include advertisements for the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series).